Jason Torchinsky

Oh, Bernie Eccelstone. That zombie-Warhol-looking bastard. What'd the F1 Supremo do now? Oh, he said he "completely agrees" with Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal anti-gay rights stance. As Putin's policies on his own gay population has led to widespread oppression and violence, this makes Bernie an asshole.

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Here's the full quote, from a CNN interview:

"I completely agree with those sentiments and if you took a world census you'd find 90% of the world agree with it as well."

I think you could also take a "world census" and find that 90% of the world thinks Bernie Ecclestone is a wrinkly cartoonish dipshit, too. You can feel however you want about gay people, and you can talk about it to the press until you're a lovely shade of indigo. But Putin's policies have gone so far into genuine human rights violations that if you support them, it's safe to say you're an asshole.

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Not that Bernie needs much assistance in the asshole-being department. Remember, this is also the man that once called women "domestic appliances" and praised Hitler's get-things-done abilities, so this isn't really a shock to anyone. Shocking would be him taking a stand for something that wasn't hateful and horrible. Though I think if that had happened, his head would have exploded and the tiny poop demons that make his stunted, troll-like body appear to move and eat would have scattered everywhere.